The changes approved by the Brazilian Senate Plenary are projected to be approved or vetoed by President Dilma Rousseff before the end of 2011. Here you can find the major changes in the most important Brazilian environmental law.
The End of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
Brazil has two major opportunities to end the clearing of its Amazon forest and to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions substantially. The first is its formal announcement within United Nations climate treaty negotiations in 2008 of an Amazon deforestation...